Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle

Newcastle United have won three successive games in all competitions for the first time since October 2023, when they won four in a row.

Nottingham Forest lost a Premier League match in which they scored first for the first time since January last season against Brentford, ending a 13-game unbeaten run when going 1-0 ahead (W8 D5).

Newcastle have won two of the five Premier League away games in which they have conceded first this season (D1 L2), as many as they won after falling 1-0 behind on the road in the competition in 2022-23 and 2023-24 combined.

Nottingham Forest have won just one of their 12 Premier League games against Newcastle (D3 L8), picking up a 3-1 win at St James’ Park last season with Chris Wood scoring a hat-trick.

Against no side have Newcastle played more Premier League away games without ever losing than Nottingham Forest (6 – W3 D3). Their last top-flight defeat at the City Ground was in May 1987 (W4 D4 since).

This is the first time Nottingham Forest are facing Newcastle in a top-flight match while above them in the table since March 1989, when they drew 1-1 at the City Ground (Forest 5th, Newcastle 19th)

Nottingham Forest have won each of their last three Premier League games, last winning four in a row in the top-flight in April/May 1995, a season that saw them finishing third in the table.

Only Liverpool (6) have conceded fewer goals than Nottingham Forest (7) in the Premier League so far this season, with only Brighton managing to score more than once against the Tricky Trees so far (2-2 draw). It’s the fewest goals they’ve conceded after 10 games of a top-flight campaign since their title winning season of 1977-78 (also 7).